-- It’s good that people can call in and sound off whether they’re positive or negative. I enjoy reading it. I’m sure those negative people pray just as much as the positive people. Our Lord lets it rain on the negative people as well as the positive people.

Those badges have a purpose

-- They’re all two-stepping around the real issue here. I had a friend who had one of those little sheriff’s badges, and he said it was the best thing in the world to keep you from getting a speeding ticket on the highway. The real reason they reward their people who give them money and support is that it gets them out of tickets.

Going to ignore badges

-- Next time a sheriff or somebody flashes a badge at me, I’ll just say what Tillman said, that it’s a little tiny badge that didn’t mean anything, even though it says “Mobile County Deputy Sheriff.”

Another case of profiling

-- Apparently this case with JaMarcus Russell is a case of profiling. Every black athlete who lives in Mobile can depend on being investigated for a drug charge. It’s all profiling.

He was no longer a ‘free’ agent

-- They said JaMarcus may get picked up by another team. He did. He got dropped by the Raiders and picked up by a team of police. How stupid!

Not a big deal

-- At least JaMarcus wasn’t doing crack or coke. He wasn’t even smoking weed. This is not so shocking or even bad. It’s just cough syrup. It used to be legal, sold over the counter.

Go after the real drug problems

-- The little old lady across the street has more cough syrup than JaMarcus had. Whoever is investigating this needs to be fired. There’s more crack right here in my neighborhood than anywhere else in Mobile, and very seldom do you see a police officer.

Buffett’s out of his element

-- Jimmy Buffett, another mediocre entertainer who thinks he’s smart enough to make political commentary. He is not. Stick to what you know, Jimmy — cheeseburgers.

He should’ve spoken up before

-- If Buffett had an issue with the oil rigs in the Gulf, he should have said something a long time ago. I say Buffett is not only a hypocrite, he is nothing but a Monday morning quarterback.

One less Parrothead

-- Well, I was a Jimmy Buffett fan until I read his remarks saying that this oil spill is George Bush’s fault. Now I look at Buffett as just another left wing member of the overpaid, under-informed, pampered group of actors and entertainment people that are totally disconnected with the mainstream.

‘Absolutely scary’

-- Reading the paper and finding out there are over 27,000 abandoned wells out there in the Gulf being neglected, and the federal government is doing nothing to monitor them, it is absolutely scary.